To:THE NIZHNI-NOVGOROD GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE[1]

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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8. VII. 1919

Tothe Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia Executive Committeefor dispatch to the Sormovo military and civil authorities

Pleasearrange immediately, through reliable Communists
known personally, a strict and absolutely impartial

—verificationof the enclosed application;

—drawup anexact, factual description of how many
houses, apartments and rooms are occupied (by what
number of persons) by office workers and higher technical
personnel;

—whatfactory building is being requested for a children’s
home and which one it is possible to give;

—verifyexactly who was to have had charge of this,
thenamesof the responsible persons, their addresses, as
well as of those who will carry out the investigation.

Reportfulfilment to me immediately by post or
messenger.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of Defence

[1]OnJuly 3, 1919, the Bureau of the Women’s Organisation in
Sormovo requested N. K. Krupskaya, who had come to Sormovo,
to help obtain a building from the Sormovo Works Management
for a children’s home. Housing belonging to the works could
be made over to other institutions only by an order of the Council
of Defence; hence the application of the Sormovo Women’s
Organisation was forwarded to Lenin. Lenin’s directive was
considered at a meeting of the Presidium of the Sormovo Soviet on
July 18. The matter was referred for a final decision to the
Presidium of the Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia Executive Committee,which decided to meet the request of the Sormovo Women’s
Organisation.